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EGYPTIANS
A symbol of the lower mental faculties and
functions connected with the desires and sensations.
"And they spoiled the Egyptians." - EXOD. xii. 36.
This refers to the valuable results of experience (jewels, etc.)
accruing in a past soul-state, being acquired by the qualities now
pressing onward in their development.
"And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore." - EXOD. xiv.
30.
Do we believe—you and I—in the death of our Egyptians? What is your
Egyptian? Some passion of the flesh or of the mind,—for the mind has
its tyrannical passions as well as the flesh. Look around! Where are
the Egyptians which used to hold the human body and the human soul
in slavery? The divine right of rulers, the dominion of the
priesthood over the intellect and conscience, the ownership of man
by man, the accepted inequality of human lots, the complacent
acquiescence in false social states, the praise of ignorance as the
safeguard of order, the irresponsible possession of power without
corresponding duty, the pure content in selfishness—do you realize
how these bad tyrants of the human race have lost their power over
large regions of human life? They are dead Egyptians. ... Is there
anything more wonderful than the way in which men to-day are daring
to think of the abolition and disappearance of those things which
they used to think were as truly a part of human life as the human
body, or the ground on which it walks? Ah! my friends, you only show
how you are living in the past, not in the present, when you see
nothing but material for sport in the beliefs of ardent men and
brave societies which set before themselves and human kind the
abolition of poverty, the abolition of war, the abolition of
ignorance, the abolition of disease, the sweeping away of mere money
competition as the motive power of life, the dethronement of fear
from the high place which it has held among, aye, almost above, all
the ruling and shaping powers of the destiny of man. I recognize in
many a frantic cry, the great growing conviction of mankind that
nothing which ought not to be need be.... 'The Egyptian must die.'
That is the assurance which is possessing the heart of man." -
PHILLIPS BROOKS, Mystery of Iniquity, p. 60.
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See Also
DURGA
EXODUS
FORTY DAYS
PARABLE
PEOPLE
SHORE (sea)
SIVA
SLAUGHTER
TONGUES
WAR
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